Sentences with phrase «runoff over»

In addition, climate change is very likely to lead to more frequent extreme heat events and daily precipitation extremes over most areas of North America, more frequent low snow years, and shifts towards earlier snowmelt runoff over much of the western US and Canada (high confidence).

We believe this is the first attempt to estimate the influence of mechanical thinning on runoff over multi-year broad - scale restoration projects that accounts for the effects of climate variability.

Glacier runoff does not increase or decrease the long term runoff for a basin, total runoff over a period of several years is determined largely by annual precipitation.

The study examined what is likely to be seen in terms of precipitation, snowpack accumulation and water runoff over the next century, versus the same data for the years from 1976 and 2005.

This lower - intensity rainfall implies less runoff over the surface, which means we should see a decline in runoff over a whole basin.

Republicans are facing rebellions from Mississippi to Arizona that could imperil their grip on Congress, as Roy Moore's win in the Alabama U.S. Senate primary runoff over Trump - backed Luther Strange emboldens populist challengers.

Not exact matches

Here, the Fed hikes three more times in total over 2018 - 19 and ends balance sheet runoff now, in recognition that numerous fundamental indicators are already signaling that economic equilibrium has been achieved.

I was reading over this question and was wondering why Maine and the other municipalities that adopted ranked voting use instant runoff voting.

The race for Public Advocate, who presides over stated meetings and is an ex-officio non-voting member of the Council, has gone to a runoff.

Beyond winning over some moderate Republicans and getting potential Democratic voters registered and to the polls, the midsummer GOP primary runoff will mark a turning point in the race to replace retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

Why not go with something like either Instant or later Runoff vote such that the winner will have an over 50 % mandate?

On the Democratic side, Public Advocate Bill de Blasio has so far counted a little over 40 percent of the primary vote, seemingly enough to avoid a runoff with the second place candidate, former Comptroller William Thompson.

The 2013 public advocate runoff — which James won over then - State Senator Daniel Squadron — cost an estimated $ 13 million to taxpayers, surpassing the office's combined budget for James» entire first four - year term.

A little over a month later, the former congressman is in the single digits and the race might not even go to a runoff, according to a new poll.

Social conservatives don't trust Karen Handel and Nathan Deal makes Charlie Rangel look clean.They are sure to beat each other up over the next 3 weeks leading up to the runoff.

Trenton Mayoral Runoff Election: Perez Picks up Green Backing and Spars with rival Gusciora over City's Direction (with VIDEO)

Gov. Ernie Fletcher and former Rep. Anne Northup are exchanging televised body blows over ethics in advance of the May 22 Republican primary, while two former lieutenant governors and a past gubernatorial candidate are fighting to make it to the June 26 runoff on the Democratic end of things.

People were so mad at the Dems that Bobby Jindal ran on a ballot of like half a dozen people and took over 50 %, preventing a runoff election.

Among registered Democrats, 18.08 percent were aged 70 and over, compared to 40.25 percent who voted in the runoff and 31.49 percent in the primary.

This instant runoff process continues until a candidate receives over a majority of votes.

The poll also shows that in a Democratic primary runoff, de Blasio leads: 54 - 38 percent over Quinn; 50 - 41 percent over Thompson; 72 - 22 percent over Weiner.

«I will definitely support [the] candidate [who] wins the runoff because either Ms. Fletcher or Ms. Moser would be an upgrade over Culberson,» he says.

In addition, by paving over previously open space — or farming previously reserved lands — communities in these watersheds contribute to record high waters through increased runoff.

This extra runoff is why waters in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for example, rose to a record 30 - plus feet (over nine meters).

Experts expect peace to lead to a development boom, threatening ecosystems all over the country with deforestation and runoff.

«Harvey runoff menaces Texas» coral reefs: Saline levels dropped 10 percent in one day over parts of Flower Garden Banks.»

Over 160,000 cubic feet per second of runoff, carrying sediment eroded from Piedmont riverbanks and farm fields upstream, submerged the falls.

That seasonal runoff created a new pattern of food availability: seasonal patches of very abundant food spaced far apart over the course of the year.

It is thought the reduced runoff is achieved because Festulolium's intense initial root growth and subsequent rapid turn - over, especially at depth, allows more water to be retained within the soil.

Over two years of field experiments in the south west the team demonstrated that the hybrid, named Festulolium, reduced water runoff from agricultural grassland by up to 51 per cent compared to a leading UK nationally - recommended perennial ryegrass cultivar and by 43 per cent compared to meadow fescue.

«Runoff» refers to the water that flows over soil's surface.

Leave a little space at the top so the soil so runoff does not flow over the edges.

The Great Barrier Reef has already experienced a 50 percent decline in coral cover over the last 27 years, in large part due to nutrient runoff from the coasts.

Forces of erosion, including wind, rain and runoff, slowly wear them down over time.

Australian scientists have been in open disagreement since 1991 over whether nutrients washed into the sea in fertiliser runoff and sewage pose a danger to the reef and, if so, which nutrients cause the most damage.

This often involves growing expanses of impermeable concrete that pave over critical environments such as wetlands and prairie lands that absorb floodwaters, thereby increasing downstream runoff.

On the plus side, Mary Wilson, a former Austin Community College mathematics professor turned minister, has advanced to a Democratic runoff in the 21st congressional district after a surprising first - place finish over Joseph Kopser, a scientifically trained entrepreneur.

To date, Singer and Michaelides have used it to identify real climate change over a broad region, but they are in the process of coupling STORM to a runoff model to explore scenarios of climate change and how they might really affect the magnitude and the frequency of runoff.

«The general problem is, we know that climate change is occurring all over the globe, but what we don't know is how it will affect convective precipitation and associated runoff.»

Each year, a huge amount of water evaporates from the ocean, then falls over land as rain or snow, and returns to the ocean through runoff and river flows.

Since it's broken into literally thousands of small drainages pouring off mountains that rise quickly from sea level over a short distance, the totality of this runoff has received less attention, scientists say.

The most common wells, called Class 5, are a sort of catch - all for everything left over from the other categories, including storm - water runoff from gas stations.

The observed and projected rates of increase in freshwater runoff could potentially disrupt ocean circulation if global temperatures rise by 3 to 4 °C over this century as forecast by the IPCC 2001 report.

The team also compared the ice loss up until the mid-1980s to that observed by satellites over roughly the last decade and found that today the rate of ice loss is twice the 20th century average, mostly because of increased water runoff from the ice sheet's surface.

Their study will include the hydrologic responses such as runoff and streamflow over land and atmospheric processes above the boundary layer.

Across the state of California, over 300 systems carry water that has been contaminated by agricultural runoff or naturally occurring pollutants like arsenic and uranium.

Graded into a sewage - runoff palette of watery fecal browns, Man Down poorly juggles three different timelines: one that follows a Marine (Shia LaBeouf) from training to Afghanistan, another set during a day - long meeting with a Marine Corps psychiatrist (Gary Oldman), and a third set in cheaply realized Red Dawn-esque post-apocalyptic future in which Islamist militants have taken over America after killing off most of the population with chemical weapons.

Like Tuck, Romero was backed by a mix of Silicon Valley tech activists and Republican business interests — but she failed to make the runoff and Torlakson won an easy victory over former district superintendent Larry Aceves.

With clients that were unreasonable over credit quality, and management unwilling to extend credit protection to GICs, the battle over GICs was ended, and I sent the line into runoff.

The basis point change presented in the preceding table, however, represents a fixed basis point change in reference obligation credit spreads across all credit quality rating categories and asset classes and, therefore, the actual impact of spread changes would vary from this presentation depending on the credit rating and distribution across asset classes, both of which will adjust over time depending on new business written and runoff of the existing portfolio.